Journalist David Romero Ellner, director of Radio Globo, and another group of journalists from the same media outlet, were sued in 2014 by former public prosecutor Sonia Inés Gálvez, wife of the former assistant attorney general of the Republic of Honduras, Rigoberto Cuellar. As a result of that suit, Romero was convicted in a criminal court for six crimes of defamation and injuria.

"I am clear, we are aware with my lawyer that the next step is jail and that will take about three, five, six or seven days," Romero said, according to El Heraldo. Romero added that this decision is not legal, but political, the site published.

Noticias Honduras published that Romero denounced a case of corruption against the Honduran Social Security Institute (IHSS) through which the official party allegedly received millions in funds to finance the political campaign of the current Honduran president, Juan Orlando Hernández.

Romero told Once Noticias in an interview that it is not just a conspiracy against him, but against freedom of expression in Honduras. "We thought that this was not going to proceed because this is an absurd, abrupt sentence, without legal logic," Romero said. And he added in his defense that he is not a criminal, but that he is a journalist who has told the truth and went where many did not want to go.